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I finished News of the World by Paulette Jiles yesterday. The audio is read by Grover Gardner whose voice is perfect for Westerns.

I've just started Is Paris Burning, which is non-fiction about the liberation of Paris. I picked it up because I'm trying to read one NF per month and this was available at the library. I had no idea until after I started reading it and did a little research on the book that it was written in the 60s and had been made into a movie. The history is interesting, but I don't care for the narrator's voice. I may have to look for the movie.

SGM wrote:Second Patrick Rothfuss (UK narration). I'm about two-thirds of the way through. There has been criticism that, as with the GRR Martin novels, it shows the lack of editorial control and therefore suffers from 'bloat', but it's not too bad. There was a fairly long over-blown section that seems to have gone nowhere but I am now past that and, hopefully, back on track. Of course, there has been a long wait for the final novel. This runs to some 40 hours which is useful because I am spending a lot of time on handicraft projects at the moment and I have not been able to train myself to read a Kindle-version effectively whilst completing these projects although I am getting better and might achieve it in a couple of months.

I have made some very bad choices with the Great Courses series and as therefore very unlikely to risk them again.

I loved the two Rothfuss books on Audible. He's an excellent writer (although, yes, a bit bloated) and the narrator is the best I've ever heard. Wish they'd get that third book out and hopefully our hero is a bit less Godlike in it.

Wolfshead wrote:I loved the two Rothfuss books on Audible. He's an excellent writer (although, yes, a bit bloated) and the narrator is the best I've ever heard. Wish they'd get that third book out and hopefully our hero is a bit less Godlike in it.

i agree about the narrator, his voice has a touch of Richard Burton in it. I thought this was one of those audiobooks that had a different narrator for the UK and US markets, but not so. I must have been thinking about a different book. Rothfuss's bloat is nowhere near as bad as GRR's